How long has it been?

[amber]

Well, I guess about 27 yrs.
GDW, 3 years old. 1977. But I also remember hearing GYOW a lot. Didn't like it then.
Consciously, Stand Back, 8 yrs. old, 1982. I was in love and haunted.
First Stevie solo: Enchanted

[Moony]

Originally Posted by LongBlackScarf

I am a fan of Fleetwood Mac, the entire band. Stevie comes along with this territory. She's not the star of the show to me though. She's only part of it. Christine to me is THE female voice of this band. Mainly because, she HAS a voice. Warm and resonant. Stevie and her reedy croak have gotten her far in life, and she has a definite place in this outfit, but her execution of her songs is surely an acquired taste. Anyway, I've been a fan since the 70's. When I was in High School. I discovered Stevie's solo work quite late in life and quite by accident when someone gave me her Enchanted Boxed set. I had a listen, and decided some of the songs were actually quite good. And some, were, as Chris McVie would say, "rubbish." It all seems to come together. I find her an interesting person, even if she's as nutty as a fruitcake at times. Like most interesting women I know and read about, she's fun and she's a complete flake. If Tasha Tudor could get up and rock, she'd be Stevie Nicks.

Funny, I consider most Chris McVie songs "rubbish."

[ontheEdgeof17]

How many years or months have u been a fan?

about 20 years.

Do u remember what year it was?

84-85ish....when I was able to understand what music was

Do u remember what song u first heard?

Stevie-wise it was Dreams....only because it was the first Stevie song to appear on Rumours

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

Solo: Opening Night TISL

[WelshWitchPMD]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

OopS! Forgot to answer thsi one.
First time that I saw Stevie was with Fleetwood Mac in 1979. I saw Stevie from the back with Tom Petty in the summer of 1981 in Boston.
First Stevie solo show that I saw was in summer of 1983 in Worcester, MA.

[GarboSpeaks!]

How many years or months have u been a fan? 23 years
Do u remember what year it was? Had to be between1982 & 1983 cause I was ALL over the Gypsy & Stand Back Videos. Being as Stand Back came out in 1983-ish, I am gonna say atrating point was 1983 and all downhill from there!
Do u remember what song u first heard? Stand Back, but then I LOVED Tusk, so I had known I liked FM, but like someone and so many have mentioned, the "knowing" of Stevie being the girl from FM was yet to be realized.
When was your first Stevie solo concert? 1989 The Other Side of The Mirror, post Loma Prieta earthquake.

[eclipse]

I remember listening to Landslide over and over.....
I was 17 and in love- and Stevie was singing my thoughts about my guy (or so it seemed.)
Listened to Fleetwood Mac for years before that-(Had a friend with an older brother..he introduced us to FM around 1972? approx. Starting buying all their albums...then came Stevie and Lindsey and a whole other band was born. I bought BN and a whole other influence came into my life, Something magical about that girl and Lindsey.
So, it seems like I have been listening to her my whole life... (she is only 10 yrs older than I)
I don't collect things- except the music and I don't spend lots of money on concerts, anymore.

But I feel as though,...just sometimes,.. she knows my heart... and is singing my emotions out loud...
And, that is why she continues to fascinate me and I listen, still...

[LiquidBlue5000]

for me, the first time i heard Stevie was back in 1983/1984.. i was literally a small child, but i remember hearing "stand back" on the radio in my mom's car... even then, i really liked that song.. although i didn't become a "fan" until years later... the summer of 1991 is when i became a true Stevie Nicks fan... my first Stevie solo concert was at Jones Beach on July 24th, 1994 on the "Street Angel" tour..

[TheBlueLamp]

How many years or months have u been a fan?

About 4 years now. Until then I only had the FM Greatest Hits album and Timespace but I only listened to 4 songs on it (ROF, SIAB, TTM and ICW). Then Bootylicious came out and I heard that they used a Stevie sample in the song, so I decided to check out Edge....then the rest of Timespace, then I became totally addicted.

Do u remember what year it was?

2001

Do u remember what song u first heard?

Solo the first song I consciously remember hearing was Rooms On Fire and I loved it.

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

Never. I saw two Say You Will concerts but nothing solo....yet

[ragandbone]

Originally Posted by David

93 KHJ was my radio station! My AM pop radio station extraordinaire. Remember when they played "One Tin Soldier" every afternoon at 4 -- practically on the button?

MmHmm, that was the first 45 I ever bought, "One Tin Soldier" by Coven. Hee. I think I switched to KMET, and then KLOS, with some KROQ at the beginning of high school.

Originally Posted by David

you saw the greatest Stevie Nicks concert of all time, as far as I'm concerned. It's never been equaled. Remember how she twirled out onstage during the slow intro to "Gold Dust Woman" & the first thing she sang was that amazing yelp/yowl? And she just kept yelping/yowling the whole night, & chattering in her manic high.

I got a floor seat for that show, but I missed a huge chunk of it: my boyfriend got me there late, and someone was in my seat. It was an intense show. I was peeved for missing the beginning, but I can't fault the boyfriend - poor guy didn't have a ticket and he drove me all the way from Hermosa Beach!

Originally Posted by David

She came onstage, overweight & dressed in a trench coat, during Petty's set for "Stop Dragging My Heart Around," & at the end of the song, said, "Tom said to tell you that I'll be back later." Remember the guy who climbed up on the edge of the stage at the end of the concert when they all took their bows & grabbed her "Stand Back" cape? I knew that guy! He was a real rat -- he lived in a dingy apartment in La Habra. He was the reason "Battle of the Dragon" got kicked off Rock A Little & put on that dumb soundtrack instead.

Wild, I didn't remember what she was wearing,or any of those details, until you described them. From where we sat - way back, you couldn't see much in the details of what anyone was wearing, just color. Did she maybe have something like a military coat on? I do remember her saying that "Tom said..." thing. Weird. You know I didn't go to that show to see L. Rondstadt, but I remember thinking she just blew the roof off with her version of Tumbling Dice.
I didn't buy a shirt.

You know, I think I had decided I was a snob (or "snoob" ) when I stopped buying tickets to big shows, but I think the real reason is that I was cheap. I never bought any memoribilia, except a few songbooks. I just wanted all my money for more records, More records, MORE Records Bwahahaha!

[ragandbone]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

One could only hope that Stevie decides to go the way of the small club/medium size venue route on future tours.. will you see her then?

welcome to the ledge, btw

Thanks!
Hey I would see her anywhere now! It is just hard to get away for a night from my toddler.

I think, back then, I had gone to a lot of shows where we shelled out lots of money for seats so far away the artists were just blurs, and the sound was just ok, and I felt gypped. And then I had some jobs in little music venues, and just got into another scene. I saw some amazing shows in those little places, but I know I missed some great concerts too! I am thankful for those brave audience recorders, so I can hear some of what I missed.

But I never stopped loving Stevie... Ok, maybe for a little while, when she donned those crinoline skirts and Grand Ole Opry hairdos.

I can't believe I said "snooby"

[Sahara]

The first Mac song I heard was Peacekeeper. My Mum got Way You WIll and got me to listen to it in the car one night. I bet she regrets that now. I really liked that song, then I got listenint to Running Through the Garden and Stevie's voice was just amazing. It was a complete awakening, like nothing I've ever heard before. So then I stole the CD and never looked back. That was about February 2004. I'm nearly sixteen. I know in lots of ways I'm a very newbie Macfan, but believe me, I got obsessed _very_ fast. I got the Dance after that, found out that Stevie and Lindsey were the girl and the guy respectively , found out just how sexy Lindsey was, discovered Silver Springs, and the rest is history.

And no, I still haven't been to a concert. *sob!*

[GODDESS6]

How many years or months have u been a fan? 32+ yrs & counting~
Do u remember what year it was? 1973
Do u remember what song u first heard? "races are run"
When was your first Stevie solo concert? 1986, rock-a-little, tho i saw the mirage tour in 1982~

[Miss Vicky]

it's 5:00 a.m. and I'm bored. So...

How many years or months have u been a fan?
Do u remember what year it was?
Do u remember what song u first heard?
When was your first Stevie solo concert?

I first became interested in Stevie's music about 14 years ago (in 1991 or 92) when I was watching MTV and they did a block of Tom Petty videos (Remember when they did those? When they actually played music videos?!!!) and they included "Stop Draggin My Heart Around" as part of the block.
I didn't make the connection, though, between this weird blonde chick with beads in her hair and that band Fleetwood Mac that my parents used to listen to (used to as in before they became parents. Somehow their musical taste went down the sh*tter with the arrival of children) for quite some time. In fact, it was only shortly before The Dance that I figured it out.
I've never attended a Stevie solo concert. I have all of her solo albums (plus BN and a lot of demos) but once I got into Fleetwood Mac I discovered Lindsey Buckingham, and just couldn't imagine paying to see Stevie without him. (Now I just can't imagine paying to see her at all, since I found her performances on the Say You Will tour to be unexciting for the most part and even annoying at times - see her "I'm a little teapot" hand gestures on "Say You Will.")

[Dreammms]

How many years or months have u been a fan? Do u remember what year it was?


I was around 6 or 7 and I am 29 now. My dad bought me my first Stevie cassette when Wild Heart came out. He also bought me Fleetwood Mac Mirage and Christine McVie's solo album. Then when I was around 15 or 16 I was listening to the Wild Heart and freaked out. I said to my dad I need the rest of her music so we went to the store and bought all of Stevie's CDs and Fleetwood Mac CDs that she was on. Then little by little I started collecting the Fleetwood Mac albums Stevie wasn't on.

Do u remember what song u first heard?

Stand Back on radio. Then on MTV. I keep remembering my daddy saying "SHE IS SO HOT."

When was your first Stevie solo concert?

Street Angel at Jones Beach.

[Serendipity]

How long?

About three and a half years, my ex's mum gave me "Rumours" on my 17th birthday, because she said I dressed like Stevie Nicks. (I hate having to point out to people, that no i do not dress up like Stevie Nicks now, I was wearing this stuff before I knew she existed ). I just fell in love with it, but I only bought a solo cd after reading a reference to "loves a hard game to play" in a book by Judy Blume (Summer Sisters). So I bought Timespace. I still have a soft-spot for that song, even if most people hate it! Became obsessed, trawled the net for hours and hours at a time and spent a lot of money.

First song?

Was actually "Rhiannon" at ex's house, but I didnt know it was sung by Stevie. I fell for it big time tho, since it was the version from the Live 1980 cd, altho I didnt know that at the time.

First concert?

None, ever Couldnt afford to eat, let alone pay those prices to go to the SYW tour and Stevie doesnt come here for her solo shows.....*cries quietly in the corner*

~Nicki